13706 RESOLUTION NO. 13706
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, is deeply concerned over the real likeli-
hood and probability of an increasing number of applica-
tions for rezoning within the City of Miami Beach to pro-
vide an increasing amount of land area for the construc-
tion and maintenance of hospitals, and
WHEREAS, the City Council is advised that the
economic feasibility or desirability of additional hospi-
tals is not an appropriate field of inquiry by the City
Council in considering such applications, and
WHEREAS, it is manifest that an injudicious and
unconsidered excessive number of hospitals is detrimental
to the best interests of the community, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has been advised that
State legislation imposes no limits upon the number of
hospitals which may be constructed and maintained in this
State and that applicants for licenses are lawfully entitled
to the issuance thereof upon compliance with the require-
ments of law,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that serious
study and consideration should be made and given at the
State level for a determination of the issue as to whether
Legislation should be enacted subjecting applications for
hospital licenses to the same tests or requirements as pub-
lic utilities, that is to say, that hospitals should be
issued licenses solely upon the basis of public need,
necessity or convenience, and that no application for such
hospital licenses should be issued except upon an affirma-
tive showing of the existence of such elements,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that copies of this Resolution
be transmitted to each member of the Dade County delegation
to the legislature of this State.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 16th day of August, 1972.
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Mayor
Attest:
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City Clerk-Finance Director
Adoption of the foregoing Resolution
was moved by Councilman Jerome G. Greene.
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